PHLB09H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Randomized Controlled Trial, Involuntary Euthanasia, Terminal Illness
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It is easily disturbed since it involves a perfect balance of benefits/harms of a treatment: 2. It is difficult to measure because it includes such a wide range of variables: 3. Its up to each person to decide how to value reproductive ability. Pad from allowable to unallowable cases: any scheme for permitted pad will need to make reference to certain concept, pt must be competent- only if 18 (what if 17 turning. Docs will more likely to offer voluntary euthanasia for competent pts: if we allow pad for competent patients, then they will be more likely to offer to incompetent pts with no expressed wishes. They are incapable to taking their own life: voluntary euthanasia risks leading to involuntary euthanasia, not necessarily wrong for pad but it may lead to other negative outcomes. Jones nephew drowns and jones just watches him drown. Both are wrong: sec 7 charter, this doesn"t mean rights have been violated.
